Can you believe it, 70% of Americans are on some kind of prescription drug and more than half receive at least two prescriptions? High on the list of drugs prescribed are antidepressants. I find that shocking. Not least, it speaks about the dysfunctional nature of society in terminal decline. The system is not working! I imagine practically everyone suffers from some kind of unhappiness or depression from time to time. Why does that happen? How might we deal with it in an effective, spiritual way, without prescribing medication?…

The not-so-merry-go-round of society

I believe there are many reasons why people suffer bouts of depression, and to me, I sense it’s mainly – if not always – due to a dysfunctional relationship with the divine. I observe in the work I do with people, if we can get that inner relationship aligned and ticking well, then depression and other disfunctional experiences dissolve away.

I put it to you, that the root cause of all Depression,
is a dysfunctional relationship with the divine.

Society has conditioned people to look for some kind of end goal in the outer world, and created a system of enslaved consumeristic addicts. Rather than attaining sense of completeness within, people have been made to believe some achievement, attainment, or physical manifestation must be the subject of their longing. Most people have been sold a lie, and when the lie doesn’t fulfill, something must be prescribed to fill the sense of loss. It’s a not-so-merry-go-round fueled by big corporations to make profit. And there’s no bigger cash cow than the ‘health’ industry.

So this is probably the number 1 reason people get depressed – they’ve been sold a lie which can never fulfill the sense of inner completeness. Worse still, prescribed drugs tend to lock people into the disconnection – they manage the situation rather than solve it.

Meditation is a powerful solution to this ‘madhouse’. I was running a course recently where one person had been steadily reducing from a daily cocktail of 18 prescribed drugs each day! Regular meditation, and seeking inner completeness, has reduced that to just one – soon that will fall by the wayside too.

So regular spiritual practice, where you’re looking for a sense of completeness within, will help immeasurably, if you find yourself beginning to feel low or depressed. Meditation helps activate endorphins, which block the take up of negative neuro peptides in your bodily cells. They help you feel good (here are other ways in generating endorphins…The Uplifting Effect of Endorphins).

We are alone in the Universe – we are “all-one”

But simple meditation is not going to be the end of the story when it comes to kicking depression into touch; there’ll be other reasons too. When you seriously get into the game of self-realisation (is there any other game going on?), then your soul will venture down the spiritual path, all the way back to the Source – back to completeness, which is the Void of Silence preceding all activity.

It’s on this journey, that at some point, the soul realises something crucial: that the soul in itself, is not an identity, but a stream of consciousness – a stream of experience. It means there’s only one self in the universe – the One; and you are that. I’ve witnessed many people in spiritual work arrive at this realisation. And in the beginning it can feel very lonely – you realise you are entirely alone in the universe!

How do you deal with this?

As within any resistance to reality, you have to deal with the tightness it creates. In this case, that’s likely to be depression. But you can’t solve it by distancing yourself from it, by pretending it doesn’t exist, or popping some pill to ‘cure’ it. That just perpetuates the problem, which you have to face further down the path (or medicate to drown the effects).

No, you have to get into the heart of it. So if you feel alone, be alone. Take yourself off and feel the aloneness. It’s all about Transcendence – you have to feel through any kind of distortion like this in order to process it. So let yourself be alone, fully express the aloneness. Then you’ll probably come to the realisation that as The One, it doesn’t matter, because you already are everything and have everything – plus you’ve manifested these relativistic experiences called ‘souls’ which give you the awesome pleasure of being reunited with yourself. So the penetration of the pain (the sense of aloneness) leads to this sense of joyful completeness – the knowledge that the world is full of resonant souls that you can interact with (it’s no doubt why social media for example has become so spectacularly popular).

The Pain of Existence

On the journey of the soul back to the source, you’ll probably also encounter the “Pain of Existence”. It’s the realisation that you’ve brought the universe into being (through no fault of your own) and now, you can’t switch it off! Wherever you go, whatever you do, you’ll find realtivity creates some kind of experience – even in the desert you can still hear the ‘sound of silence’ in your ears and beating heart.

But what you can learn to do, is to transcend reality altogether. How do you do this?

You have to be totally in the moment, and totally accepting of what is arising for you as an experience. If it’s tightness, unhappiness and resistance, embrace it, feel it, don’t push it away. Work at becoming ‘as-one’ with the experience; which means to be so intimate with it, that it’s like you’ve been completely submerged within it. And you may then stop defining it as some kind of judgment the ego has made.

Then right in the midst of the feeling, see and feel yourself ‘stepping through the experience’. It’s like you open a doorway right through it, into pure presence itself. You can do this only because you no longer allow the feeling to define you, and you’re not resisting it.

In being the One through the experience, you will likely find the nature of the experience changes into one which is more harmonious. The Pain of Existence naturally disappears and with that the depression (discover more about…Breaking through the Pain of Existence).

Where’s your Tribe, what’s your Vibe?

On a recent Openhand Course, I was staggered at how many starsouls there were amongst the group. I can always tell, because I can literally feel their vibration. You simply know they’ve traveled here from other constellations.

Many of these experiences will be much lighter and more expanded (the earth vibration being pretty dense). Plus many will have a greater sense of unity and harmony. So you could well be a starsoul, who has the sense your real home is elsewhere (it’s something I often hear). And being disconnected from your true ‘tribe’ can cause a fair amount of sadness – leading possibly to depression. In these instances, I encourage people to open a connection with their soul family – through their ‘vibe’. It can be done in meditation: you simply have to open your heart and extend an invitation.

Then afterwards, watch supportive synchronicity shaping in the field – perhaps you’re guided to a particular book or film, which gives a sense of something resonant within.

Try to see past the purely surface level in order to appreciate this – see the 3D world, but always look for the deeper message, the Joy of MultiDimensionality.

Chemical Imbalances

Depression can also be caused by chemical imbalances – in the brain for example. Especially since our world is so full of toxin and society is so distant from our natural ways. This is where diet and supplements can be of great help. This is clearly a huge subject, so I felt here below, only to list three important issues which are likely to have some kind of impact on you or those close to you:

Moontime: the adverse hormonal imbalances of the feminine monthly cycle – ‘Moontime’ – affects a great deal of women, and can easily cause anxiety and depression (having a big impact on relationships). Herbs such as Agnus castus can greatly help ease the burden (find out more in this informative article here…Honouring the Sacred Feminine Moontime).

Cold weather and Lack of Sunshine: In colder climates where the winter days are cloudy and short, this can lead to vitamin D deficiency, which is a known cause of depression. Load up on vitamin D; nurture yourself with plenty of extra sleep. Protracted cold closes the body down as a protection mechanism. But it can close your consciousness down too. So intersperse these ‘hibernation’ periods with plenty of aroma therapy hot baths and saunas, to soften internal body tightness and to open lighter, uplifted and nurtured consciousness.

Be patient and trust in the Inner Guidance Mechanism of the Soul

Really then, for the most part, the route cause of depression is a dysfunctional connection with the divine. If we feel disconnected and isolated or can’t find inner peace and contentment with our divine connection, then this is highly likely to lead to bouts of unhappiness and depression. But if we’re aware of this underlying cause and how to work with it, then we can certainly kick depression into touch and turn our lives around.

It does take a good deal of work and attention – commitment to feeling into the experience, accepting it without needing it to go away, thus becoming ‘as-one’ with it; we penetrate the experience into “The One”. It feels ordinary – awesomely ordinary. It’s completely okay. Suddenly you laugh at yourself and feel much better.

Medication is no solution. It simply locks in the dissonant polarity and sense of separation from the divine. It just makes things more tolerable in the short term.

No, it’s a spiritual solution we’re looking for; and if we open ourselves up and ask, the answers will surely come. We just have to be patient and trust in the Inner Guidance Mechanism of the Soul. Then for sure, just as I’ve witnessed in many people, you can kick any bout of depression into touch.

from my heart to yours

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Understanding the Spiritual Causes of Depression was last modified: June 18th, 2016 by WakingTimes

Whilst working with a couple of clients to move past their low mood states such as unhappiness and depression, a quote from a spiritual teacher about depression and happiness came to mind that helps to explain how to break free from depression and other low moods states.

Jed McKenna, had a perspective on depression that made absolute sense to me when I read it, and perhaps the perspective may also make sense to you.

I pulled out Jed’s book from my library and opened the page where in 2010 I had bookmarked where he spoke about depression.

Here it is…

Depression is fear with hope removed. It arises as we discover that something we thought could be ours will never be ours…

…depression is when we realize we’ll never have it…

There is more in this quote about depression vs happiness vs freedom, but for now, I have pulled out only the relevant sections about depression.

Let’s look deeper into what depression is.

Jed says…

Depression is fear with hope removed.

In this case, we can simply this with a mathematical equation, depression = fear – hope.

As 3 = 2 – 1 can be re-written as 1 = 3 – 2, in the same way, the most positive aspect of Jed’s explanation, hope, can be written as hope = depression – fear.

So, to bring back the most positive aspect of hope and create a better experience, you must remove the fear from your depression.

What is the fear in depression?

As Jed says.

depression arises as you discover that something you thought could be yours will never be yours.

What is the something that you want to be yours?

Well… it could be something physical and tangible for you such as your own house.
It could be something non-physical and yet generally perceivable for you such as your own enjoyable relationship.
And it could perhaps also be something intangible and uniquely perceivable for you such as your own enthusiasm.
In most cases of depression that I have come across, the low mood state is usually due to the not having one of the first two desires and wants…

…The desire or wanting of something physical and tangible such as your own house, or something non-physical and yet generally perceivable such as your own enjoyable relationship.

It is when you experience not having or owning such outcomes or conditions that states of depression or unhappiness are created.

Hence, it can be said that you seek happiness in the outcome of your desires and wants.

It cal so be said that happiness is defined by the condition of having as yours what you desire or want.

That is why when you don’t get or are continuously working and striving to get something you desire or want to be yours, you become unhappy.

And as Jed says… “depression arises as you discover that something you thought could be yours will never be yours.”

However, there is a huge flaw in perception when happiness is defined by the condition of having as yours something you desire or want.

Why happiness is not in having something?

I as you to really contemplate the following…

You desire or want something to be yours so that you can be happy, and that is probably because you have never had that something to be your own, and hence and again you desire and want it.

This loop of desires and wants contributes to your unhappiness and depression.

Also, contemplate this…

If you have never had that something to be yours, how do you really know you will be happy if or when that something becomes yours?

You don’t know, and you have no direct experience whether or not having something as yours will make you happy.

Everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.

— a quote of Jim Carrey, the actor, after he used the law of attraction to manifest 10 million pounds (7 million dollars) and then later becoming depressed. In this quote, Jim somewhat owned and experienced his definition of rich, famous and doing everything he ever dreamed of, but he experienced depression. Read more about this here https://karavadra.net/why-getting-everything-you-want-is-not-the-complete-answer/

Why you have depression.

Because you have been conditioned to believe that having something that you desire or want will make you happy and you have convinced yourself that is true.

Past experiences have created conditioning for you which has created beliefs which have created desires and wants for having something as yours to make you happy.

Some such conditioning and related desires and wants may be from your distant childhood experiences.

This form of long ago conditioning may be somewhat subconscious, subtle and you perhaps may not be aware of it.

However, the conditioning has maintained your desires and wants to date to have something as yours and on that event, you will be happy.

Your other conditioning may not be subconscious in that it is from recent experiences, that you remember, which have created recent desires and wants to have something as yours that will make you happy

However, as above, you have no direct experience or knowledge that having something as yours will make you happy.

But you carry on making plans from your desires and wants, and doing things in life with a hope that you will have as yours something that will make you happy.

It is after making plans and doing things for some time and not getting your desires and wants, and then striving and further continuing your actions for your plans, that low moods and unhappiness are experienced.

As Jed says…

Unhappiness is when we worry about not having something

What is happiness?

Happiness is a very subjective experience, meaning that your happiness will never be entirely the same as another person’s happiness.

Yes, two people can be happy about a moment of an experience in a life situation, however, the thoughts, emotions and sensations of the body would be different in both people.

So, happiness is a unique inner feeling and experience that you have, and that is why desiring and wanting something to be yours cannot make you happy.

It is really your happiness that you want, and not for something to be yours.

That may not sound too profound, especially if you are unhappy or depressed, and that is where Jed’s quote about freedom helps…

freedom is when we realize that nothing is ours and nothing can be ours, so that, in effect, nothing isn’t ours.

How can you experience happiness or freedom without having anything?

If Jed’s quote means that if something that you want as yours will never be yours, you may ask yourself… what is the point of your life, and is it not better to try to work to have something as yours, rather than accept that something that you desire or want for something will never be yours?

If you are having such thoughts read the following post before you continue reading the post below (click on the link, read the linked post and then come back here).

The human mind has thoughts which we often call intellectual knowledge and use them to create something as ours that we desire or want.

If all intellectual knowledge was aligned to your true desires, then you would not experience not getting something you desire or want, or if you actually got something you desired or wanted as yours, you would not then experience depression and unhappiness.

How do you break free from depression and unhappiness?

First, you need to break free from the thoughts and emotions from your conditioning that have created the desires and wants for something to be yours that will make you happy.

You also need to accept that you have no experience that getting something, and especially that something to be yours, will actually make you happy.

In fact striving for such desires and wants could create more unhappiness and depression when you realise that you have spent decades working towards making something yours (e.g. making your life plans and dreams come true), and either you never achieved your desires and wants but carry on striving to, or you achieve having the something as yours but it did not make you happy and perhaps some form of low mood continues.

The last line of Jed’s quote which I marked is now relevant… “freedom is when we realise that nothing is ours and nothing can be ours, so that, in effect, nothing isn’t ours.”

And in that sentence lies the one biggest mistake that most people make when they try to solve any problem.

Once you know what that mistake is and what to do, you can then really start your journey to break free from low mood states such depression and unhappiness to create real and lasting transformation and healing in your life situations.

Read the full quote from Jed that I marked, as reading it in one session will help digest all of the above…

Depression is fear with hope removed. It arises as we discover that something we thought could be ours will never be ours. Unhappiness is when we worry about not having something, depression is when we realize we’ll never have it, and freedom is when we realize that nothing is ours and nothing can be ours, so that, in effect, nothing isn’t ours.

How to start your transformation & healing.

First, discover that one biggest mistake that most people make when they try to solve any problem, and also get another insight into freedom and no-thing being yours.

Download a report at the link below to discover that one mistake, and how to break free from unhappiness, negativity and problems.https://karavadra.net/transform/

Bruce Patin

This article says it all. I was once in a long period of depression. It was when I realized that the religion in which I had been raised, which provided the whole reason for my existence, was partly built on lies and misunderstanding on the part of way too many people who accepted it without discovering the problems with it. Cognitive dissonance is the term that caused the depression. I gradually got out of it by accepting that there had to be a better truth, and that I could not lie to myself about what I really believed, and meditating until I had psychic and somewhat mystical experiences that gave me something to replace what my religion had provided.

We the Sheeple

First off, the title alone is quite misleading. It is strongly implying that Spirit is somehow at fault for humanity’s rampant depression when it is our very belief systems themselves that have greatly befuddled the minds of billions of people with over-conecpetualization – conditioning generation after generation with nothing more than the infamous “divide and conquer” approach to a deeply dysfunctional reality.

And when a great many people continue to live and be attached to without any awareness to the Grand Illusion we call “modern society,” a paradigm whose very foundation is built upon yet more illusion (fear), it is absolutely no mystery why we are so disconnected, so separate from who we truly are. We have all bought into a world of lies and deception, a veritable “hell on earth” that is a major undercurrent in the collective consciousness of humanity.

But, since most people either continue to believe in the Grand Illusion or immerse themselves into unnecessary conceptual belief systems (both religious and metaphysical) in efforts to make sense of actuality (which is different than reality), we simply trade one illusion for another, and another and so on – never closer to understanding who we truly are.

The depression and anxiety is essentially a wake-up call that our individual lives (as players in the Grand Illusion) are greatly out-of-synch with the authentic way of living in harmony with all life and the planet itself. It is in internal conflict between the lies we are all living and our true purpose. Yes, the chemical and disharmonious energy soup we marinate ourselves in each day is by all means adding to our dysfunctionality because our DNA is continually challenged to maintain proper functioning. When the toxic burdens are overwhelming, biological processes will and are going awry.